economic growth

Western Australia job shortage warning

by Ray Clancy on May 13, 2011

in Jobs in Australia

Warning for skilled workers shortage raised

Western Australia is facing a period of sustained economic expansion driven by more than $220 billion of resource and infrastructure projects in the next five years creating major job opportunities.

It is not just the resources sector that will be recruiting as labour needs are changing, according to the state’s Training Minister Peter Collier. According to the Western Australia Department of Training and Workforce Development, the state could face a skills shortage of 150,000 by 2017. [click to continue…]

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